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strange happening

I saw one of my hives start to swarm then watched as they clustered in a tree on a branch. I got the shotgun and shot the base of the branch off hoping to catch them into a hive body with old brood combs from a dead out this spring I had placed under the tree.As they fell they all scattered flying back to the hive they came from clustering on the outside of the hive as in the pic. After a while they went back inside the hive.I'm wondering maybe the queen got killed when the branch fell I did see some bees on the ground that were injured.I don't think the queen would go back into the hive it swarmed out of.

Re: strange happening

Now that is a nuc tower that I am proud to see. As for your bees I imagine they will settle down and if the queen is truly gone they will get ready to swarm again with virgins from the cells they made earlier. Time for some splits!